Films aid Girls Inc.

Tuesday, April 14, 2009
By ANNE-GERARD FLYNN

It's only 16 minutes of images, but two films by John C. Jarvis' students at Bay Path College in Longmeadow have helped raise over the last two years more than $350,000 for Girls Inc., a nonprofit in Holyoke that offers a variety of programs for girls from 5 to 18 years of age.

Jarvis' students have been at work on another eight-minute film that Janna Chapdelaine, director of development and public relations for Girls Inc., hopes will raise $100,000 when it is shown at a potential donors breakfast on April 16 from 8 to 9 a.m. at the Basketball Hall of Fame.

"The breakfast is our biggest fund-raiser and the film is the introduction. We want to make them laugh and cry and get them connected. The Bay Path students do a fantastic job and there are so many neat things involved for our girls. The students get to be mentors without even knowing it and the girls get to see successful women in college doing what they love. It is setting the stage for the girls," said the 23-year-old Chapdelaine who is a 2006 graduate of Bay Path.

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